Australian singles chart:
Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine entered the Kent charts on 7 May 1973 and peaked at #20.
Album:
The song is on The Storyteller which entered the Kent album charts on 4 June 1973 and peaked at #26.
Songwriter:
Tom T. Hall
Producer:
Jerry Kennedy
Record label of Australian release:
Mercury
Wikipedia:
Old Dogs, Children and Watermelon Wine was written and recorded by American country music artist Tom T. Hall and is a true account of his experience at the 1972 Democratic National Convention, where he had a conversation with an old janitor at a Miami Beach hotel. The janitor appraises his own life by concluding that the only worthwhile things are the three listed in the song’s title.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Dogs,_Children_and_Watermelon_Wine
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